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Chit happens
Chitting crikey, that’s a lot of potatoes. Yeah yeah, I know you guys all did yours weeks ago, but last week I was throwing up and the week before that I was at Disneyland. So we only just got around...
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Showtime!
Time to get digging. The sun came out on Saturday morning, so I decided it was high time that I got cracking with my allotment (actually I meant to do it a couple of weeks ago but my children have had...
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Mother’s Day
The sky is 50 Shades of Grey anyway. Despite media stereotypes of mums, for Mother’s Day I really didn’t want that CD of Westlife’s greatest hits played on the panpipes, or a day at a spa (unless it is...
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And that’s a wrap
It’s Miller time. OK, I still have to make a few finishing touches, but pretty much ta-daa! Fruit cage. I’m excited. Still haven’t got my potatoes in yet though.
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The first earlies are in
Tempted to freak out the other allotmenteers by adding some headstones. And it only took me two hours of digging. I love my new mattock. I don’t have the energy to do a long post, but I would like to...
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Sow what (round two)
Here we go again. In round one, I sowed two varieties of tomato and two varieties of sweet peas. The sweet peas are now all 8 feet tall and threatening to eat my children. The cherry tomatoes (Sweet...
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Rocky-style montage
I have been super-busy in the last couple of weeks in the garden and at the allotment. Sadly I don’t have time right now to do a proper update, but I will do some more in a couple of weeks. For now, I...
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She left her allotment unattended for 3 weeks. You’ll never believe what...
Well, just like with every other article with a badly-written clickbait headline, you’ll be completely unsurprised and disappointed to find that the bleedin’ obvious has occurred- my allotment was...
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Plot 12b- A year in review
Well, I’ve been the proud tenant of plot 12b for a whole year now. And I’m pleased to say that I have actually done stuff with it and not just left it so that the weeds grow even bigger <eyeballs...
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Last night’s dinner courtesy of plot 12
I haven’t had much time to get up to the allotment in the last couple of weeks due to Digger Puppy not having had her shots yet. But everything is growing well and I was able to come home with the...
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The seed catalogues are here! Sunglasses at the ready
My dog ate the Unwins catalogue. I wish I was kidding. Have you been visited by the postie this week? I’ve had catalogues from Suttons, Marshalls and Unwins. I was so excited about getting the...
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And sow it begins….
No mini muffin baking for me until these are in the ground. Chitting crikey, is it that time of year already?! Yes it is. And so I’ve been making my usual lists, and list of lists, and colour-coded...
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Could you grow a pumpkin big enough to live in?
Thompson & Morgan’s latest project I feel a bit better about my seed habit now because Thompson & Morgan have just spent £1250 on one seed. It’s not just any seed (I would hope not at that...
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Mr The Digger is a manly, manly man
Mr The Digger flexing his muscles. I am blessed with neither patience nor excellent fine motor skills (I can convincingly play a bass guitar. Shoelace-tying can sometimes take a few goes). Plot 12 was...
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Things are happening at plot 12
Yeah, it was a bit rainy over the weekend. Did you enjoy Easter long weekend? Easter weekend is traditionally the first big gardening weekend of the year- early potatoes go in, everyone heads to the...
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How to turn a shit day into a good one
Job’s a good un! I was in an OK mood when I got up this morning. The sun was shining and even though DiggerDog was being a bit of an idiot (puppy adolescence), we had a nice walk in the woods where all...
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National Gardening Week Challenges: Day Six
No, I did not forget my challenge, I just didn’t scan it in time. I’ve decided to make a proper plan of what I’m going to put in the allotment this year, so that later on I can completely ignore it, do...
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Happy bank holiday weekend/Beltane/International Workers’ Day
Three very good reasons to garden and then drink too much. This weekend I have managed to squeeze in some allotmenting between all the parenting and dog…. ownership. My fruit cage looked like a dumping...
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